Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

satisfactory submission is accepted by thetechnical writing grader. Final approval of the technical writing grader is worth a certain amountof points on these class assignments to motivate student completion. The same could be donewith oral presentations, standardized forms are developed for evaluation by the faculty and peers,the evaluation results are dated and posted to the CMM management tool, a video tape of thepresentation can also be digitized and posted to the tool for later comparison. Also posted to themanagement tool would be designated team project design reports and assessments of theindividual’s team leadership and collaboration skills by the faculty and team members. This willdocument improvements in communications, team and leadership

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Proposals and RequirementsSept 23 Technical and Management Proposals DueSept 26 Project Scope/ConOps Presentations (15 min/team)Sept 28 Publish Team Website / Work on RequirementsSept 30 Mass and Volume Estimation  Implied costsOct 3 Requirements Briefings (15 minutes / team)Oct 5 Report Writing Fundamentals / Work on DesignOct 7 Trade Study Briefings (15 minutes / team)Oct 10 Peer Review Instructions/ Intro to RID Forms / Work on DesignOct 12 Work on DesignOct 14 Prepare for Midterm Presentations Page 25.97.17Oct 17 Midterm Presentations (25 minutes / team)Oct

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn R. Gosselin, San Jose State University; Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, primarily-undergraduate institution. These changes were made with the goal of improving alignmentbetween in-class assessment practices and ABET assessment requirements. The first majorchange involves reviewing and revising the Performance Indicators for all Student LearningOutcomes. Specifically, the PI’s were rephrased for strong alignment with the revised Bloom’sTaxonomy, with a focus on higher order learning. The second major change is the developmentof descriptive rubrics for several major assessment tools. Two rubrics will be examined asexamples: one for peer assessment of team members’ contributions in the program’s capstonedesign project and the second for a position paper on contemporary issues related tothermodynamics. Initial results from

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-directed inquiry to identify, critically evaluate, and cite relevant literature. 5. Provide feedback to others on their writing, speaking, and teamwork abilities. 6. Demonstrate ability to work in teams and manage team projects. 7. Design and deliver effective oral presentations. 8. Understand ethics and sustainability in engineering.ABET outcomes #4, 5, and 7 will be assessed as follows:(4) An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.Assessment: Communicate different engineering topics involving ethics and sustainability to avariety of audiences (public, peers, experts in field, etc.) in oral and written formats, consideringfeedback from peer review and instructor.Implementation: Using knowledge of the audience to

Collection

Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Seema C Shah-Fairbank P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul R Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Shonn Haren, Cal Poly Pomona

those skills, such asinformation literacy and written communication, into a water resources course in the College ofEngineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). We willdescribe a process in which students developed skills in information literacy and writtencommunication that supported the engineering outcomes associated with ethics and professionalresponsibility. Prior to Fall Semester 2019, students taking this course were required to write apaper regarding a water resources catastrophe. Apart from a prompt that asked them to provide acritical evaluation of a specific failure and to support their position through peer-reviewedsources and other relevant sources, no further course time or additional resources

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hisham Alnajjar

pairing or clustering of courses in which a group of 20-plus studentstake two or three courses together. The goal was to get faculty to cooperate on the sharedoutcomes between the clustered (FIGed) courses, which are called “Integrative LearningBlocks (ILBs)”. The idea was very successful as far as students’ performance, interest,and their GPA. In 1998 the College of Engineering (COE) had a pilot FIG, involving anintroductory engineering course and a writing course. Recently, the COE received asignificant grant from the NSF for “Integrating Engineering Design with Humanities,Sciences and Social Sciences” where the experience gained from the pilot FIG comes invery handy. This paper is to explain the procedure of the FIG and the ILBs, assess

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Gunnarsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Camille Birch, University of Washington; Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

curriculum design and pilot efforts of a short module in theintroductory bioengineering course [4-5].Course OverviewThe introductory bioengineering course aims to provide broad exposure to several areas ofresearch in bioengineering such as cancer diagnostics, medical device development, regenerativemedicine, global health, and synthetic biology. The course emphasizes critical reading ofscientific literature and technical writing, and broadly covers the engineering design process,creative problem-solving techniques, engineering ethics, social constraints, and other designprinciples.The first offering of the honors section was a 2-credit add-on to the introductory bioengineeringcourse. The honors section was comprised of 12 students who were

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

toprovide training and real world, small-scale project experience through the completion ofa full-project lifecycle from conceptualization to prototype. Brief discussion of thoseprojects that resulted in provisional patents, refereed journal publications, and conferencepresentations will be given. Some of the features of the course, such as University andindustry guest speaker series and final project evaluation by the department’s IndustrialAdvisory Board, leading professionals, faculty, technical staff and peers will beexamined. The paper concludes by outlining a set of short term and long term goals forthe future direction of the course.IntroductionEngineering and engineering technology disciplines consider senior project courses animportant and

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

research sources from prior classes, but also knew this might be a newerskill for most. Consequently, the teaching team provided students with a brief guide reviewinghow to search library databases and find relevant literature.After first-round submissions had been turned in, students were tasked with writing peer reviewsof the submissions of other teams. Several reasons were given to them for this, including theopportunity to see more examples of bias and a variety of ways of presenting information, aswell as practice with providing helpful feedback to others. Students were given the opportunityto revise and resubmit their conceptual models based on peer feedback.Intervention phase 2: Proposing a new design/research to create valueThe next phase

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg L. Saylor, University of Cincinnati; Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

2(16Students) 5 6 Figure 1: Implementation Timeline for the FSSP and S-STEM Programs2.2. Freshman SSTEM Scholars Program (FSSP) StructureGoals of FSSPThe main goals of the program are: enhanced retention of URM students, the development ofstrong URM candidates for admission into the S-STEM program, and to build interest in studentsfor the pursuit of graduate study. Enhanced retention of URM students is critical as 2014 datafrom the National Center for Education statistics 15 describes African American and Hispanicstudents as 23.6% and 12.7% less likely, respectively, to finish college after 5 years as comparedto their white peers. Retention is encouraged

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shasta Ihorn, San Francisco State University; Anagha Kulkarni, San Francisco State University; Michael Savvides, San Francisco State University; Ilmi Yoon

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

diversity.4 The program consists of five classes,unique to the minor, that span across two academic years (4 semesters) and relies on the use ofcohort-based program structure, near-peer mentoring, and project-driven learning. The cohortstructure allows for close relationships to form, combatting the social isolation that historicallymarginalized students may feel in CS classes. Peer mentoring benefits students by offeringfurther academic, social, and professional development support within the program. Project-based learning provides strong ties to students’ major area(s) of study (primarily biology andbiochemistry) and supports students’ future success in fields that are becoming increasingly data-driven.1 Finally, the minor program courses focus

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

team andassume they are a professional is to overlook the much needed education in basic professionalism.As with any pedagogical method we have identified perpetual problems with problem studentsand specifically address these through project team design. The general categories that weencounter with students at our institution are listed below in relative frequency/importance. Theyhave been developed using personal interactions during, and peer evaluations after studentprojects from a variety of courses and faculty. Each school will have a different list. For example,our list obviously excludes cultural differences. • Working - Students working outside school 20 or more hours per week often have schedules that do not fit with regular full

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regina Hannemann, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

two phases of the team dynamics cycle.The new set of changes to the course is not as effective as had been hoped. The amount ofbookkeeping is tremendous due to all the reports and presentations. Students are unable to workefficiently on their technical project due to the overload on report writing. Students alsocomplain that one semester is not enough time to produce a professional prototype. The basicfeedback from the Self/Peer-Reviews also indicates that one semester might not be enough togive the students a positive team experience, which would include the last to phases of normingand performing.Intermediate Conclusion:All changes in phase 2 have been introduced in the author’s first semester teaching the seniordesign course. Even though

Conference Session

Moving the Needle: The Complexities of Race and Gender in Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

student teams. Interrogating theinteractions African-American males experience within multiracial teams enhances ourunderstanding of how they experience engineering and what peer interactions reduce spotlightingand disconnection. Page 26.1545.2IntroductionTeam projects in undergraduate engineering programs are critical sites for professional skillsdevelopment. Designed to simulate engineering work, team projects allow students to try onprofessional roles as they interact with peers and faculty. Also, engaging in engineering activitiessuch as a team project can help students establish a sense of identity within their field, which inturn influences

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adel Shirmohammadi, University of Maryland-College Park; Arthur Johnson, University of Maryland-College Park

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

which was in the group that submitted the report. There is a form (a copy of whichis attached) that solicits specific comments about technical and communication attributes of thereport. Evaluators are instructed not to write simple “yes” or “no” entries, but to givemeaningful comments. These evaluations are submitted anonymously, except to the instructor,and are graded by the instructor and returned to the group that originally submitted the report.The advantages of this procedure are these: 1. it assists the instructor in reading and evaluating the reports, because he has the peer evaluations when grading the reports 2. it gives the submitting group feedback from more than just the instructor 3

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J Miller, University of Maryland; Robert Lent, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Gregory M. Wilkins, Morgan State University; Matthew M. Jezzi, University of Maryland; Kayi Hui, University of Maryland, College Park; Robert H Lim, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole A Bryan, University of Maryland, College Park; Helena Mimi Martin, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, University of Maryland, College Park Paige Smith has served as the Director of the Women in Engineering (WIE) Program in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland since September 2001. WIE provides a com- prehensive set of academic year and summer outreach programs for students in grades 4-12. Retention programs include a living and learning community, peer mentoring and fellowships in research and teach- ing. Paige is also the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative (MAGiC), a regional collaborative of the NSF funded National Girls Collaborative Project. MAGiC connects girl-serving and supporting in- dividuals and organizations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC that are

Conference Session

Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Manjari Wijenaike; Dennis M. Faber, FCC, inc.

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

expand their current knowledge base and practices.The Compendium offers direct faculty access to the latest STEM and advanced technologicaleducation connections. With the Compendium, faculty leader colleagues can: 1) Expand theirown knowledge base; 2) Inform and improve their teaching profession practice and scholarship;and 3) Use the research and content from the Compendium to develop and write competitivegrants. Use of the Compendium can help faculty leaders develop themselves professionallythrough hands-on research and practices, and via dissemination to peers and/or peer reviews.Searches within the Compendium can be tailored to specific program and/or course needs for up-to-date and pertinent models, examples, and implementation practices

Conference Session

Improving Laboratory Education in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

lab report is due every week from design teams; these reports are graded quickly usingan electronic form for feedback so that the instructor distills comments to the most importantareas for improvement, rather than noting every detail that is out of place. This rubric is providedas Appendix C. Students are required to individually reflect on their group’s performance in thelab and in their writing by explaining which parts of the instructor’s feedback they consideredmost important and how they would improve for future reports. (8) A peer and self evaluation isdue through CATME (9) after every other lab.A final exam is conducted at the end of the term. This exam is designed to largely emphasizeconcepts from the professionalism and laboratory

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Pringle, Vantage College, University of British Columbia; Gabriel Potvin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

had been produced by the students themselves.One of the final classes had the students revising their own reports in a workshop setting withinstructor and peer support. In this setting, common errors could be identified and corrected andshared with the whole class. The relative popularity of this particular activity may be reflective of the students’ motivationto improve their own writing to secure a higher grade. However, the grade weight attached toeach report (3% for the first draft and 2% for the second, for a total of 15% of the whole coursein term 1) is small. In fact, the instructors were somewhat surprised by the degree of dedicationto this revision process, given the low weight attached to each assignment. Anecdotally

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

by including criteria such as“engages in lifelong learning,” “understands the impact that engineering has on society,” and“communicates effectively” in their assessment of engineering programs [3]. Besterfield-Sacre etal. observe that students’ attitudes about engineering and their abilities change throughout theireducation and influence motivation, self-confidence, perception of engineering, performance, andretention [4]. The same group also found that attitudes toward engineering directly related toretention during the freshman year [5]. Seymour and Hewitt [6] examined students who leftengineering programs and found that they were not academically different than their peers whocontinued in the program and that their retention was better

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; John Y. Hung, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

assess certainperformance indicators, leading to results that were not as meaningful as they should have been.Consequently, the course instructors made some relatively simple changes to course assignmentsto ensure that students provide evidence of achievement of each of the desired performanceindicators. This serves both to facilitate assessment and to emphasize to the students what theyare expected to know and be able to do. The following sections describe how this has been donein ELEC 3040/3050.IV. Course assignments and assessmentIn the past few years, Auburn University has emphasized writing across the curriculum. Eachprogram in the university has been required to submit a plan for writing within the majorcourses, with students expected to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Brocato, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

AC 2009-1565: TWO WAYS OF USING CASE STUDIES TO TEACH ETHICSJohn Brocato, Mississippi State University John Brocato serves as Coordinator and Instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. He designed and helps teach GE 3513 Technical Writing and works closely with engineering departments on enhancing the technical communication content in their curricula. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from MSU and previously taught in the English Department there. He is a member of ASEE and serves as its Campus Representative for MSU

Conference Session

Getting Into Graduate School

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

Paper ID #19000Getting Great Recommendation Letters: A Practical GuideDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engi- neering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands- on

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Bradley J. Sottile, The Pennsylvania State University; Arun Srivats Mohan, Pennsylvania State University; Frank Christopher Barber

) – collaborated to develop a micro-credential on professional ethics for PennState’s College of Engineering. The micro-credential is targeted towards engineering students asearly as their first year of post-secondary study. The draft micro-credential notably includedseveral historical case studies – notably, the Boeing 737 Max crash, the Space Shuttle Challengerexplosion, Apple intellectual property misappropriation, the Volkswagen diesel emissionsscandal, and the Ford Explorer and Firestone tire tread separation incident – with additionalfurther modern cases inspired by recent engineering industry events. In this work, our qualitativeimpressions on the micro-credential development process originated via memo-writing (Saldana,2012), were further

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

about what has happened and what is possible in order to create a muchricher design experience and understanding; the cost of this is the higher overhead to the team.Providing a range of techniques allowed each student to assess which practices worked best forthat student’s personality and background, as well as for different situations they mightencounter. Different people may learn better through different types of reflective practices.Typical introverts8 may prefer the privacy of a journal to participating in team retrospectives,while extroverts may be more effective the opposite way. Writing and talking use different partsof the brain. Many people think better when they are physically active20.‡ This includes increasing the value all along

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Hailey, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, including external guest speakers,introductions to the female faculty members, and presentations by Career Services.In addition to borrowing many of the ideas from a number of existing seminars, the USUseminar was shaped by data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Page 11.994.2freshman survey.6 The 2004 CIRP survey was completed by 79% of the main campus freshmanclass. USU freshman students differ from those of their peers at comparable institutions in anumber of areas. ‚ 86% of the USU freshman class viewed raising a family as essential or very important compared with 78% of the freshman at peer schools. ‚ 35% of

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Showkat J. Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Xiang Zhao, Alabama A&M University; Tamara Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

rate, and graduation time needed are significantly better compared totheir peers. This study shows that, the scholarships and various academic supports provided tothe talented but financially needy minority students had significant impact on student success,retention, and graduation.1. IntroductionIn an increasingly competitive and technology driven global economy, the future prosperity ofU.S. to succeed depends in a large measure on a STEM educated workforce. During the nextdecade, U.S. demand for scientists and engineers is expected to increase four times compared toother occupations [1],[2]. Yet, only 32% of undergraduates in the U.S. receive their degrees inSTEM while the corresponding figures for Japan, China, and Germany are 55%, 59

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 9: Lessons Learned from Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann M. Gansemer-Topf; Shan Jiang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Yiqi Liang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Dong Chen, The University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

projects; completing Clifton Strengths testand individual career assessment before attending the class. For weekly classes, studentsparticipate in small and large group discussions to gain an understanding of course topics.Following the 50 min lecture, students participated in the post-lecture activities such as smallgroup peer reviews for reflective writing, discussion of the application of PM skills, and Q&Awith guest lecturers (see Table 1).Table 1. Course Content Week Course Topic Learning Activity 1 Introduction Icebreaker game 2 Project Charter Building project charter for thesis/ research

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski PE, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

plans SPRING BREAK Final report and plans Present final plans to community Final Presentations Figure 2 Transportation Capstone Requirements, by Week, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation Concentration) – Northeastern UniversitySemester Outline – Task-BasedDuring the second week of the semester, the firms are given project descriptions. The projectdescriptions are “broad”. The “broad” descriptions are deliberate – they afford the students theopportunity to be creative in their approach. The projects are reviewed by the consulting teams.After the review, the students write two

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Stevie Clark, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University; Ryan Smith, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Cooperation on Science Fair Projects on Elementary School StudentsAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to show that outside the classroom, active learning throughscience fair projects with assistance from RAMP-UP Fellows can positively impactfourth graders. A comparison of the students’ third grade End-of-Grade (EOG) mathscores to their fourth grade EOG math scores, after they have worked with RAMP-UPFellows on science fair projects, is presented to assess the impact. RAMP-UP assistedfourth graders in 2007 had a 2.96% and an 11.43% improvement in their developmentscale score and achievement level respectively as compared to 1.99% and 3.59%improvement by their peers. The 2008 and 2009 assisted science fair students did notperform as well as